EMQ

The root of development failure in Africa is a faulty world view.

For more than 20 years, I’ve experienced “the agony and the ecstasy” of team life, both as a member and as a leader. Over that time, I’ve noticed that most teams go through four stages before they become productive.

As with all blessings, there are banes in cyberspace.

Going is often easy. Staying in a lost group with viable ministries and approaches is an awesome challenge with multiple obstacles.

Recently, I showed a Kenyan missions leader a copy of a magazine which focused on the AD2000 and Beyond Movement and asked his opinion.

Closure has crept into missionary thinking, but it doesn’t belong there.

This remarkable story has many valuable lessons.

Storytelling is the answer to the boring cognitive approach.

I don’t think any advocate of the priority of frontier missions (mission to the unreached peoples, to the least-evangelized, or to World A, which roughly corresponds to the 10-40 Window) would disagree with Michael Pocock that ministry to each of his four categories is valid Christian ministry.